Endless conveyer type packing machine



c. L. DONEY 2,127,394 ENDLESS CONVEYER TYPE PAGKING MACHINE Aug. 16, 1938.

Filed Oct. 11, 1937 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 ATTORNEYS 1933- l c. L. DONEY 1 2,127,394

ENDLESS CONVEYER TYPE PACKING MACHINE Filed Oct. 11, 1937 2 Sheets-Sheet '2 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS Patented Aug. 16, 1938 UNITED STATES ENDLESS CONVEYER TYPE PACKING MACHINE Charles L. Doney, San Pedro, Calif. Application October 11, 1937, Serial No. 168,528

4 Claims.

The invention relates to an endless conveyer type packing machine and more especially to a fish can packing machine.

The primary object of the invention is the pro- VlSlOl'l of a machine of this character, wherein cleaned fish will be mechanically handled for the carrier, the machine being novel in construction, and enables the packing operation to be carried forth with dispatch and mechanically thereby eliminating hand labor for such purpose.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a machine of this character, wherein the construction thereof is duplex so that groups of cans can be filled and packed with fish, these groups the working of such machine.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a machine of this character, which is comparatively simple in its construction, thoroughly reliable and effective in operation, automatic in the working thereof, and inexpensive to manufacture and install.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which disclose the preferred embodiment of the invention and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation partly broken away of a machine constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken longitudinally thereof.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary vertical longitudinal sectional view through the machine.

Figure 4 is a sectional View on the line 44 of Figure 1 looking in the direction of the arrows. Figure 5 is a sectional view on the line 5-5 of Figure 4.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawings.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the packing machine comprises a table A formed with a marginal upstanding flange ill at its top II which is horizontally arranged, the top being rounded at opposite ends, while arranged perpendicularly at these ends are rotatable shafts I2 and I3, respectively, having splined or keyed thereto rotors [4 which are superposed with respect to rotary can carriers l5, these being integral with each other and splined or keyed to the said shaft. The rotors l4, each has peripherally formed therein spaced vertical substantially half circular shaped recesses It for accommodating packing cylinders l1, each formed near opposite ends with annular flanges l8 while between the said cylinders and pivoted to the flanges are chain links l9 effecting an endless conveyer operating in a manner presently described.

Above the rotors I 4 and upon stationary uprights 2!] are sinuous cam tracks 2|, these being disposed about the shafts l2 and I3, respectively, for reciprocatory action of pistons or plungers 22 adapted for action within and out of the cylinders I! under reciprocation thereof. The pistons or plungers 22 have their stems 23 operating through guides 25 on the outer ends of radial arms 25 extending from hubs 26 adjustably fixed to the shafts I2 and I3. The stems 23 at their upper ends have fitted thereto traction rollers 21 which operate in traction grooves 28 formed in the tracks 2|.

Each carrier I5 is of circular formation hav ing peripheral pockets 29 accommodating cans 30, these being'fed into the pockets from the table top I l and are empty when received in said pockets 20 for the subsequent filling thereof with fish in the packing of such cans through the use of the machine.

The rotors M are formed with annular grooves or channels SI for accommodating the flanges I8 formed on the cylinders I! and in this manner the endless conveyor is prevented from riding upwardly or downwardly in the travel thereof with relation to said rotors.

Interposed between the rotors l4 above the table top I l is a platform 32 which eliminates the sagging of the conveyer at the stretches between the rotors I4 when the said conveyer is in motion.

Next to opposite ends of the table II are up: standing rotary shafts 33 carrying horizontally disposed disk-like cutters 34, these working between the carriers 15 and the rotors l4 immediately above the upper open ends or tops of the cans 30 for the severing of the fish and preventing excess filling of the cans in the packing thereof, the fish being introduced into the cylinders l1, which are open at their upper and lower ends. in any suitable manner at the time that the pistons or plungers 22 are without said cylinders and upon the lowering of these pistons or plungers the fillings of fish within the cylinders will be packed automatically in the cans 30 fitting the carriers IS, the said carriers and rotors rotating in unison with each other, the shafts 33 being power driven in any suitable manner and likewise the shafts l2 and I3 are power driven in any desirable way.

The cylinders when engaged with the rotors I4 vertically align with the cans 30 in the carriers I5 and through activity of the pistons or plungers 22 on the downward strokes pack the contents of the cylinders l'I into the cans 30 for the filling thereof.

The table top I l holds the cans properly within the pockets 29 in the carriers I5, the introducing of the fish after the cleaning thereof into the cylinders I1 may be had mechanically or by hand or otherwise.

The filling of the cans 30 for the packing thereof is had successively through a continuity of operation of the machine and in this manner assuring fast economical packing of the fish within the can which is subsequently cooked and sealed in any desirable manner. The filled cans are removed from the pockets 29 in the carriers H5 at the table top I I and empty cans substituted therefor, these empty cans being readily introduced into the pockets 29 from the table top H of the machine, there being no chance of the cans when empty or filled accidentally falling from the table top. The platform 32 operates to close the lower open ends of the cylinders H to prevent droppings from these cylinders during the operation of the machine until the cylinders in single order reach the rotary cutters 34, one being at each end of the table A. The platform 32 is suitably extended in any suitable manner about the rotors 14 so as to properly underlie the cylinders l1 occupying the pockets 29 when at opposite sides of the cutters 34 to assure the closing of the lower ends of these pocketed cylinders until a meeting of the said cylinders in single order at the points of the cutters 34 therewith.

What is claimed is:

l. A machine of the character described comprising a table, rotors arranged at opposite ends of said table, an endless series of cylinders trained about said rotors, packing plungers reciprocatingly operated and movable within and without the cylinders at the points of the rotors, can carriers beneath said rotors for communication with the cylinders when traveling about said rotors, and cutters operating between the rotors and said carriers for cutting material freed from the cylinders into the cans.

2. A machine of the character described comprising a table, rotors arranged at opposite ends of said table, an endless series of cylinders trained about said rotors, packing plungers reciprocatingly operated and movable within and without the cylinders at the points of the rotors, can carriers beneath said rotors for communication with the cylinders when traveling about said rotors, cutters operating between the rotors and said carriers for cutting material freed from the cylinders into the cans, and rotatable means supporting the rotors and carriers.

*3. A machine of the character described comprising a table, rotors arranged at opposite ends of said table, an endless series of cylinders trained about said rotors, packing plungers reciprocatingly operated and movable within and without the cylinders at the points of the rotors, can carriers beneath said rotors for communication with the cylinders when traveling about said rotors, cutters operating between the rotors and said carriers for cutting material freed from the cylinders into the cans, rotatable means supporting the rotors and carriers, and means arranged between the rotors superposed with respect to the table for preventing sagging of the cylinders when traveling between said rotors.

4. A machine of the character described comprising a table, rotors arranged at opposite ends of said table, an endless series of cylinders trained about said rotors, packing plungers reciprocatingly operated and movable within and without the cylinders at the points of the rotors, can carriers beneath said rotors for communication with the cylinders when traveling about said rotors, cutters operating between the rotors and said carriers for cutting material freed from the cylinders into the cans, rotatable means supporting the rotors and carriers, means arranged between the rotors superposed with respect to the table for preventing sagging of the cylinders when traveling between said rotors, and cam trackage above said rotors and reciprocatingly operating the said plungers.

CHARLES L. DONEY. 

